There's a genre of movies where the plot revolves around an incredibly evil kid - whose evil most people are oblivious to since the kid seems so innocent on the surface - until the kid gets away with more and more evil until the final showdown. Movies like The Good Son (where the evil kid dies) and more recently, Joshua (where the evil kid wins). I hate these movies because the characters always know less than the audience does. I'd like to see a movie where the parents catch onto their kid's evil ways about half an hour into the movie, giving them the upper-hand over this arrogant evil brat that thinks he can outsmart his parents, but really they're outsmarting him.
Another possible interesting twist would be if they recognized their kid's evil nature, and saw how good he was at maintaining his innocent demeanor even while committing atrocities, and somehow got their kid to off all the people bugging them.
A kind of similar genre - at least in the sense that it involves kids who are smarter than adults - is the superhero kid genre. The Spy Kids/Cody Banks/Alex Rider/Shark Boy/The Seeker thing where kids have hidden powers, are brilliant spies or fighters, or are the only ones who can complete a quest, and so on. I think it would be funny to have a movie that starts out like this, but then the kid is easily subdued, and his parents have to rescue him, or something like that.
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